Obamas First Date Romance Movie In the Works

December 6, 2014 4:36 PM

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The new indie drama, Southside With You, will chronicle the summer afternoon in 1989 when President Barack Obama wooed his future first lady, wife Michelle Obama, Deadline.com reports. Production is in now in full swing and actress Tiki Sumpter has signed on to play The First Lady while the casting search for a young Obama continues.

The story of their marathon first date across Chicago’s South Side has long been one of the most romantic “how they meet” presidential tale to come out of the White House. When they met Obama was a first-year Harvard law student working a summer job at Chicago law firm Sidley Auston, where he met an...